Engineering and design student insights
Student projects, placements, research and study experiences in the Faculty of Engineering & Design. Sometimes featuring a graduate guest spot.
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How to Design the 'Best' Paper Airplane
Author: Aurimas Bukauskas - One of the reasons I was interested in doing a PhD in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath was the emphasis that the department and the university place on public...
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Video Production for your Student Project
Author: Franco Botes - When people ask what I do, I say that I’m an engineer, completing the second year of my PhD. I work on control systems and simulation, and I want to go into the automotive industry. But...
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Envisioning the Internet of Things at Bosch
Author: Ka Man Wong, MSc Modern Building Design (MBD) student - I was very delighted to be selected one of the winning entries for the Internet of Things (IoT) competition organised by BOSCH. The competition forms part of the #BetweenUsWeCan...
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Developing a polypill machine for a district pharmacy
Fay talks us through how she developed a machine that combines pills into a single dose to help patients take the correct medication and reduce hospital visits.
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Things are about to get electric
Author: Antonio Pessanha - Team Bath Racing Electric (TBRe) represents the University at the annual Formula Student Electric competition. We aim to become the top electric team in the UK in 2017 and to set the foundations for continued electric...
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Fancy playing with building physics in a ROOM?
If at any point in your life, you wondered why the room is dark, why the air is not fresh, or why the speech in an auditorium sounds muffled, the answers lie within building physics. In the mood to learn...
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11 Tips for Three Minute Thesis Contenders (and anyone giving a presentation really)
Author: Jemma Rowlandson, winner of the 2016 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition - The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition is a fantastic idea, a great exercise in explaining your research quickly and to a non-specialist audience. It not only comes in...
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‘Sorry, but what is an engineer doing in supply chain..?’
Author: Matthew Berry - During the last 10 weeks at Patheon UK in Swindon, the above is probably the question I’ve been asked the most and equally struggled to answer, so hopefully as this blog progresses I’ll be able to...
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Detecting plastic landmines in different environments
Author: Carl Tholin-Chittenden, 2nd year PhD student in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering and a member of the Engineering Tomography Lab (ETL) - I am working with Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) which is a sensing technique mainly used...